Why Some Preemies Thrive and Others Struggle Remains a Mystery
Why some premature infants thrive and others struggle is a medical mystery that San Diego Pulmonologist Julie Ryu is determined to crack.
View ArticleRestorative Justice Weighed as Alternative for Addressing Domestic Violence...
Advocates for restorative justice say there's a need for alternative strategies to address domestic violence, especially in cases where survivors don't want the police involved.
View ArticlePrevention is Key to Halting #MeToo Across Generations in California
As a researcher and as someone who, like many in my generation, has faced sexual harassment on more occasions that I care to consider, I hope my research team’s new study, “Measuring #MeToo in...
View ArticleFood Aid Expansion Expected to Help Low-Income Seniors Improve Their Health
For years, Dorothy Lowery, 72, of San Pedro has struggled to get by on the less than $700 a month she receives in Supplemental Security Income. That changed on June 1, when Lowery and about 500,000...
View ArticleAs More California Kids Drop Medi-Cal Coverage, Experts Seek Answers
More than 150,000 California children dropped out of federally funded health insurance programs in 2018, a trend some experts blame on the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies and efforts to...
View ArticleFor Our LGBT Community, We Need a Better Violence Against Women Act
The statistics are staggering: 44 percent of lesbian women, 61 percent of bisexual women, 26 percent of gay men, 37 percent of bisexual men and nearly half of transgender people will be raped, attacked...
View ArticleSenators Seek Drop-In Centers for Youth in Mental Health Crisis
A bill making its way through the California legislature seeks to establish 100 youth drop-in centers across the state to support young people with mental health, substance use and physical health issues.
View ArticleCalifornia Centers that Help Those with Disabilities Spend Less on Latino...
California's service system for children with developmental disabilities is spending significantly more on white and English-speaking kids than on Hispanics and Spanish speakers, according to a new...
View ArticleState Budget Deal Expands Health Care to Undocumented Young Adults and...
State lawmakers have approved a new budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year that seeks to make health care accessible and affordable to more people, including undocumented young adults.
View ArticleFor Many Low-Income Californians, Health Care is Still Too Expensive
Despite health coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act, many low-income Californians are still struggling to afford medical care, with more than half reportedly delaying treatment because of cost,...
View ArticleCalifornia Budget Restores Adult Medi-Cal Benefits Cut a Decade Ago
In 2009, as the Great Recession bore down on California, lawmakers cut coverage of eyeglasses, podiatry, speech therapy and other benefits from the state’s low-income health program. A decade later,...
View ArticleProposal to Change Poverty Calculations Could Cause 60,000 to Lose Public...
California advocacy groups are decrying a Trump administration proposal to change one of the measurements to determine the federal poverty level, a move that could force tens of thousands of state...
View ArticleGov. Newsom’s Pharmacy Plan May Harm Community Clinics
An executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom could have the unintended consequence of eliminating the ability of community clinics to purchase drugs at a steep discount and reinvest savings into patient...
View ArticleCalifornia Environmental Group Warns of High Arsenic Levels in Two Bottled...
An Oakland-based environmental health group is threatening to sue the manufacturers and retailers behind two bottled water brands for failing to warn consumers about allegedly high levels of arsenic in...
View ArticleIn Effort to Stop Domestic Violence, Advocates Teach Financial Independence
From a young age Alejandra Aguilar understood the links between money and abuse. A new report from the Prevention Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit, describes three main ways in which economic...
View ArticleIn Effort to Decrease California’s Stillbirth Rate, Advocates Encourage...
Nora Nicholson, who lost her son to stillbirth, is focused on preventing other parents from facing similar tragedies. As the California ambassador for Count the Kicks, Nicholson’s job is to encourage...
View ArticleAs Homelessness Rises in Many Parts of California, Counties Search for Solutions
Many California’s counties reported having more homeless residents this year, according to the 2019 Point in Time surveys, which aim to count the number of people experiencing homelessness on a given...
View ArticleState Water Agreement is a Victory for Health Equity
Water is a fundamental determinant of health. That’s why it’s such important news that California's governor and legislature agreed to establish ongoing funding to make sure every resident in our state...
View ArticleIn the Central Valley, a Trafficking Survivor Works to Rescue Others
It’s not unusual for Debra Rush to receive a late night phone call from law enforcement agents who have just completed a human trafficking bust and need her help caring for trafficking survivors. When...
View ArticleAs Families Drop Health Benefits Over ‘Public Charge’ Rule, Clinics Scramble...
Soon after news broke last week of the Trump administration's finalized “public charge” rule, benefit enrollers at the Eisner Health community clinic in downtown Los Angeles started getting phone calls.
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